The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a plotted terrorist attack on an industrial facility CEO in the Sverdlovsk Region; a Ukrainian handler remotely detonated an explosive device, killing the attacker in Yekaterinburg, the press office reported.
“The Yekaterinburg branch of the FSB thwarted a terrorist attack, plotted by a Russian citizen born in 1985 on the Ukrainian special services’ instructions,” the statement said. According to the FSB, the attack was supposed to be carried out against a Sverdlovsk Region industrial facility CEO. During the perpetrator’s detention, he had already possessed an explosive device from a cache to blow up the CEO’s car.
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Source: TASS News
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